A Critical Look at the Phillies Organization and Minor League Baseball
MLB Scheduled day 2 of the draft to cover rounds 5 to 20. It did so opposite the Futures Game and MLB games. It also removes the clean break between picks with slots and those without, so a reminder any pick in round 11 to 20 costs the bonus amount minus $150,000. I would expect … Read more
Some events proceed as a series of compounding foreseeable disasters. The first day of the 2026 draft was one of them. Sandwiched be other programming it began on NBC for 10 picks before beginning an odyssey of digital channels. Meanwhile those in person described it as loud and disjointed, and then suddenly over as the … Read more
In the 3rd round of the 2026 draft the Phillies selected Texas RHP Ruger Riojas in the 3rd round of the 2026 draft. While ranked about this range or above by MLB and Baseball America, there isn’t really a ton of optimism about Riojas’s upside. He will turn 23 tomorrow and is smaller in size. … Read more
With their second round pick (#64 overall) the Phillies selected Missouri State OF Caden Bogenpohl. It is sort of a classic Phillies draft pick in that there are real tools and upside, but in a way that they have never really developed. He is a massive human being, listed at 6’6″ 245lbs who is a … Read more
It was probably a safe bet that the Phillies would go high risk and high school with their first pick. In SS Tyler Spangler they managed to get both. On the surface he has good size (6’3″) with a projectable frame and chance to stick at shortstop. IT seems that he might end up moving … Read more
Draft Tracker Draft Tracker Spreadsheet Day 1 (7/11): Day 1 Thoughts Day 2 (7/12): Phillies 2026 Draft – Day 2 Pick Tracker UDFA: Mock Drafts: Draft Rankings:
Entering the draft I wrote the Phillies had an obvious need for pitching. It wasn’t a new or novel concept, and saying they needed both depth and talent was obvious to anyone who started to put together a ranking or tried to figure out who the Phillies had to give up in trade. We may … Read more
I will update this post as picks are made with any information I can find. Round 11: Will Vierling, C, Murray State Will is a cousin of Matt and is a left handed hitting catcher. He played sparingly over two seasons at Louisville before transferring to Murray State and making it to MCWS where they … Read more
After selecting Matthew Fisher in the 7th round, the Phillies were going to need save the rest of the money in order to make that signing possible. That was true for the first player they took in Miami RHP Brian Walters. However in the 9th round they selected a local kid in SS Matthew Ferrera … Read more
After the last few picks it seemed like the Phillies were saving up money for someone, and in HS RHP Matthew Fisher, we have that someone. Fisher was a player that had been linked in various mock drafts to the Phillies as either an under slot first round pick or as an over slot target, … Read more